Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

Put People First
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And I have noticed an interesting phenomenon. Each year, one
member of the association will be elected to be the national presi-
dent. As the president, he or she will have to spend as much as half
of his or her time traveling around the country voluntarily, without
pay, on association business.
You would think that this would really cut into the person’s abil-
ity to make a living. But it seems that exactly the opposite happens.
All the association presidents I’ve spoken to found that they made
more money, did better in their careers, and made more progress in
their field in the year that they took off to work for the association
than in any other year of their work lives.
The more you put in, without expectation of reward, the more
you get back from the most unexpected sources. And you are in
complete control of what you put in. The universe will take care of
the rest.
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KEEP A RECORD
Harvey Mackay, in his audio program,
How to Build a Network of
Power Relationships
, says that the most important word 
not
in the
dictionary (at that time) is the word “Rolodex.” He claims that, if
your Rolodex is big enough, you are never more than two phone
calls away from anyone in the country. Harvey Mackay has a
Rolodex with more than four thousand names that he has gathered
over the years. He has found that at least one of those people in his
Rolodex has direct access to virtually any other person in the coun-
try with whom he wants to communicate, including the president of
the United States.
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